Growing up in Englewood, Soyini Walton said she was directed into transcription and stenography classes while she watched her male peers walk around with slides and discuss algebra. She always ...

1983: “I guess I lost it,” Chicago Cubs manager Lee Elia told reporters April 29, 1983, hours after he made an epic rant ripping the team’s fans — a three-minute tirade peppered with more than 50 ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and police Superintendent Larry Snelling hosted dozens of public leaders at the J.W. Marriott ...

The history department hosted Rick Perlstein, a historian and journalist from Chicago, for the sixteenth annual Shriber ...

Without explanation, the Republican-controlled General Assembly approved the termination of a bi-state alliance that’s pumped ...

The 80-year-old Democrat told WBEZ in an Illinois exclusive that age was a factor in his not seeking a sixth term in the U.S. Senate.

The deeply unpopular war led to the biggest and most consequential protest movement in U.S. history. Here are the key events ...

Cable TV came late to my town. This had something to do with my father, Herb Cohen, who, on the heels of the success of his ...

Organizers need about 328,000 signatures to get on the state ballot and 52,000 for Chicago. A signature-gathering kickoff ...

Trying to force your will to break the spirit of working people in order to have a conversation — that’s terrorism. And we’re ...

The “Golden Age” of White Sox baseball was born, as on Opening Day the White Sox destroyed the St. Louis Browns, 17-3. The 17 ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) compared President Trump to a terrorist after the president threatened to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities. “Trying to hold people hostage and ...